The Man From Toronto
Glenn Gould, the 23-year-old pianist from Toronto is surely among the most
gifted executive artists we have produced in this country in recent years. He
proved it at the Ladies Morning Musical Club yesterday with a program that would
tax a pianist twice his age and he brought it off with resounding success.
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... was completely new as was a Fantasy by Oscar Morawetz of Toronto which I
would dare to class among the really important composition to come from a
Canadian.
[...]
The Morowetz Fantasy is a long [...] piece. But it has character and ideas and
is true composition and not just a string of fugues put together for effect. It
also sounds extremely difficult but that hardly counted with Gould. The idiom,
by the way, is a fine blend of what is traditional and what has come into music
more recently.
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